One hundred and fifty years later, and we are still talking about the Civil War. How does the legacy of the Civil War and emancipation affect our lives today? We kick off Letís Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War, a new reading and discussion series at Deschutes Public Library with period music, a dicussion and reading of Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry, and a preview of the series. Discover this important period of American history through historical and contemporary literature with fellow community members.

Letís Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.